Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio.

I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

COVID-19 has hit Native American communities particularly hard, but it's not just lives being lost.

A tribe's elders are not just the most susceptible to the disease. They're often the last people who know local customs, rituals, and even languages.

And in China, a company's rubber stamp or chop is more official than any signature.

Problem is, whoever holds the chop controls the company.

And recently, that's led to some pretty interesting power grabs.

But first... Tomorrow, Britain's Prime Minister will make an announcement on something dear to British hearts, the reopening of pubs.

It's one part of the next stage of lockdown easing in England, which will come into effect on July 4th.

Compared with the rest of Europe, Britain has been slow to reopen, in part because it was so slow to shut in the first place.

As other countries first prepared their lockdown plans, there was a lot going on.

On March 7th, the England Wales rugby game in London,

which the Prime Minister attended, along with a crowd of 81,000. On March 13th, there was the

Cheltenham Festival, one of the country's premier race meetings, which a quarter of a million people

attended.

And a day later, a packed-out concert by the stereophonics in an arena in Cardiff.

At the time, there was a sense that the government had things in hand.

But now Britain has the highest death rate of any major country,

and that early support has turned to anger and distrust.

Britain's done very badly in this pandemic. Emma Duncan is the economist's Britain editor.

Britons are kind of irritated and frustrated to see pictures from mainland Europe of people in cafes and restaurants. And here people are pretty

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